I Beleive Its Always Best to Keep Your DJ Vinyl CD Collection and the Players

0:01 Something that is potentially the most

Right ladies and gentlemen, welcome and also a very warm welcome to all the new subscribers. Thank you for subscribing. Don't forget if you're watching this video and you haven't subscribed, do it. Thank you. I'm going to show you something that is potentially the most important piece of kit and also what to use in the world. Now, I'm going to give you a bit of a history lesson here and really this history lesson is for a lot of the new DJs out there. A lot of the old school hopefully will be nodding their head going, I agree with him. Fingers crossed. Go back to when DJs started which was in the year Dot and you had vinyl. Then of course those CDs, sorry CDs, the cassettes came along which was revolutionary.

I mean if you've got an original Walkman then quids in. Because the prestige of having something like that, the kudos of having an original Walkman or even the Mark II and III. Some of the old Walkmans now are worth an absolute fortune if they're in good condition and they work. Same with cassettes but what happened? We threw the cassettes away because CDs sort of appeared. We threw the VHSs because DVDs appeared. And then you've got your vinyl and then all of a sudden MP3s. So a lot of DJs thought, yeah. It's on a laptop, great. What's happening now is we seem to be having this transition period now from having all your music on a hard drive to the system out there going, well you don't really even need it on a hard drive.

1:54 NFTs for example, non-fungible tokens

You can have it up there in the clouds and you can get it whenever you want. You can play it wherever you want. You can do what you want with it because it's yours but it isn't because you haven't got it. You don't physically hold it. There's a sort of a saying which is something like this, if you haven't physically got it in your hand, you haven't got it. Yet the system now is slowly making people think that they own everything but you actually don't own anything. NFTs for example, non-fungible tokens. Isn't it great to buy something and have it on your screen but it's only on your screen. If the electricity goes off, you haven't got anything. Now this is a CDJ-1000 Mk3, all right. That is a CD. Now so long as this is working and I keep the CD and the CD's in good condition and maybe if it starts to fail and it bubbles or something happens

Because I have had CDs in the past that have started to wear away and they said CDs last forever. I copy it. I can carry on playing my music when I want to play. I can play my music without having to rely on the cloud. Also some vinyl, so long as I don't like put that in broad daylight in the middle of the summer and let it warp and I keep it in a cool sort of non-damp environment, it should last indefinitely. So, so long as I've got, of course, the dust cover on very quickly as well. The dust cover is there for a reason. Guess what? To stop the dust getting in. Now the only thing I've done here that's not right is I just shoved it in the dust cover. And put it in the record. Ideally, you need to put it in the dust cover, turn the dust cover 90 degrees, then put it in.

So the dust cover opening is sort of on the side. So guess what? No dust gets into your vinyl. But again, even if you don't look after your vinyl correctly, it could warp or over time could get mould on it and so on. So you've got to look after that. But what I'm trying to say here is for all the old school DJs, they'll probably understand because it's great to have your own physical copies. That's tactile. You could. Open it up. You can read information off something instead of scrolling through your laptop and also in 12310 years time, if I do indeed keep my hard copies, I can carry on playing them now. In the past couple of years, there's a hell of a lot that's gone on, and I honestly believe we are now at the fourth industrial revolution where the system doesn't really want you to own everything.

4:32 I mean, I've seen two of these go

You may have heard that term. In the future, you'll own nothing. Rent everything but be happy, which begs the question in that case, who owns it? Hmm. So you see, it's very simple. The more you rely on the cloud, the less control you've got over your life and the music you play. So my advice is very simple while you can, if you can invest in a CD player, investing two CD players these things. Now, I mean, I've seen two of these go. These are the mark threes. I've seen two of these go working condition and a mixer for about 300 quid because a lot of people are getting rid of them. Just roll your mind back. This is for the DJs my age, a little bit younger, a little bit older when techniques were about all of a sudden, guess what?

CDs came in MP3s 15 years ago, you could have picked up a Technics SL 1200 Mark two turntable. An original daddy turntable for 100 quid. No one wanted them. They were like, oh, they're in the way now you try and find a Technics if you can, you're going to be spending a lot of money. You're going to be spending in good condition, three, four, £500 because they're sought after that people want them. It's like an old classic car. How many Ford Escorts or Cortinas have you had and you ditched it? It rusted and you thought it's failed its MOT. Because of. With a few holes in it, you've been it yet now a Ford Escort if you can find one in good condition will cost you £10,000. You just work that out so let it mull over, see what you think.

Let me know in a comment. Do you have old school CD players like this? Have you kept them? Are you thinking of selling them? Do you have some for sale? If you do consider keeping them because in the future when the proverbial, if it does hit the fan, you may think, thank God I've got something I can play my music on. What do you think? Please put a comment. Let me know. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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